[14:57] <RAOF> smspillaz: Yes.  I'm *at* UDS now.  My Sydney->Dallas flight left about 3 hours before the shutdown was announced.
[15:34] <smspillaz> RAOF: haha, nice, yeah, mine left 3 hours before the shutdown was announced to
[15:34] <smspillaz> BUT I'm stuck in brisbane
[15:34] <smspillaz> for at least 2 more days
[15:34] <RAOF> :(
[15:35] <smspillaz> (qantas is paying for my hotel and everything)
[15:35] <smspillaz> virgin is all booked up
[15:35] <Wellark> smspillaz: damn :(
[15:35] <smspillaz> meh
[15:35] <smspillaz> they put us all up in 5 stay hotels with a 100AUD per-diem
[15:35] <smspillaz> can't complain
[15:35] <smspillaz> *star
[15:36] <smspillaz> except that dinner was 70AUD (!)
[15:36] <RAOF> !!!
[15:36] <smspillaz> never going to the hotel restaurant again
[15:36] <smspillaz> Sofitel restaurant in brisbane: AVOID
[15:38] <smspillaz> the announcement was more or less hilarious
[15:38] <smspillaz> we touched down and
[15:38] <smspillaz> "so uh, for those who are travelling to sydney uh, we don't have clearance to take off"
[15:38] <smspillaz> "qantas isn't giving the control tower the necessary paperwork"
[15:38] <smspillaz> "....or the necessary paperwork to anyone else"
[15:39] <smspillaz> 5 minutes later
[15:39] <smspillaz> "so apparantly we're not allowed to work. sorry for the inconvenience I guess"
[15:40] <Pendulum> smspillaz: that's honesty for you
[15:40] <smspillaz> nobody had any idea of what was going on
[15:40] <Pendulum> (you have my sympathy I got snowed in at an airport last night)
[15:40] <smspillaz> ouch
[15:40] <smspillaz> yeah this lock out pretty much hit everyone by suprise
[15:41] <smspillaz> I feel really bad for the LAX people though, the lockout happend *when they were on the tarmac* and they *weren't allowed to take off*
[15:41] <smspillaz> but they couldn't go back to the gate either
[15:41] <smspillaz> so they were stuck on the plane grounded for at least 4 hours
[15:41] <smspillaz> at least the lockout happened more or less after we took off
[15:42] <Pendulum> ugh
[15:46] <smspillaz> good time if you happen to own shared in virgin airways australia though
[15:46] <smspillaz> *shares
[18:34] <TheMuso> smspillaz: Given the ruling from FWA, have things changed for you re flights?